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IF (Rudyard Kipling)

If you can keep your head when all about you If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; To serve your turn long after they are gone,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, And so hold on when there is nothing in you

But make allowance for their doubting too; Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

Or being hated don't give way to hating, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your If you can fill the unforgiving minute
master;
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings,

And never breathe a word about your loss;


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SE De forar corao, nervos, msculos, tudo

Se s capaz de manter a tua calma quando A dar seja o que for que neles ainda existe,

Todo o mundo ao teu redor j a perdeu e te culpa; E a persistir assim quando, exaustos, contudo

De crer em ti quando esto todos duvidando, Resta a vontade em ti que ainda ordena:
"Persiste!";
E para esses no entanto achar uma desculpa;

Se s capaz de, entre a plebe, no te corromperes


Se s capaz de esperar sem te desesperares,
E, entre reis, no perder a naturalidade,
Ou, enganado, no mentir ao mentiroso,
E de amigos, quer bons, quer maus, te defenderes,
Ou, sendo odiado, sempre ao dio te esquivares,
Se a todos podes ser de alguma utilidade,
E no parecer bom demais, nem pretensioso;

E se s capaz de dar, segundo por segundo,


Se s capaz de pensar - sem que a isso s te atires;
Ao mnimo fatal todo o valor e brilho,
Se encontrando a desgraa e o triunfo conseguires
Tua a terra com tudo o que existe no mundo
Tratar da mesma forma a esses dois impostores;
E o que mais - tu sers um homem, meu filho!
Se s capaz de sofrer a dor de ver mudadas
Traduo de Guilherme de Almeida
Em armadilhas as verdades que disseste,

E as coisas, por que deste a vida, estraalhadas,

E refaz-las com o bem pouco que te reste;

Se s capaz de arriscar numa nica parada

Tudo quanto ganhaste em toda a tua vida,

E perder e, ao perder, sem nunca dizer nada,

Resignado, tornar ao ponto de partida;

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